Rare large map of the Gooi at a scale of about 1:26,000 by Hendrik Post, coloured by a contemporary hand, dedicated to Hendrick Bicker (1682-1738), an Amsterdam city councillor (and former burgomaster) and legal and financial advisor to the Admiralty, with his coat of arms above the title at lower right. The cities and villages depicted include Naarden, Huyzen, Bussum, Laren, Hilversum and Eemnes. It also shows and names the owners of several estates at 's Gravenland, including that of the Bicker brothers, Jacob Roeters (two estates) and Blommert.
The information on this map is partly derived from earlier manuscript maps: one on a large scale by Justus van Broekchuysen (1709) and a smaller one by Maurits van Walraven (1723). The present map adds new information on the estates at 's Gravenland and a table at the left giving the surface area of 37 numbered pieces of land, the largest "erfgooiersgronden". An inset map in the form of a drapery at upper left shows the northwestern tip of the Gooi with its "maatlanden" (grasslands). Reinier and Josua Ottens were active from 1726 to 1750 and the map is usually dated ca. 1740, but it must have been issued shortly before Bickers death on 16 February 1738. He held the titles named here already when he bought a house in Amsterdam in 1733.
In fine condition. Donkersloot-de Vrij, Topografische kaarten van Nederland voor 1750, no. 799 (1 copy); IKAR (1 copy); H. Tromp & J. Six, De buitenplaatsen van 's Gravenland, 1975, pp. 44 & 46; Jan Werner, "Het Gooi", in: Geografie, 22 (2013), no. 7, pp. 32-33; www.zuiderzeecollectie.nl/object/collect/Zuiderzee_museum-16190.